What I love about London is that , although it is now established as one of the most cosmopolitan and culturally modern metropolis in the world, walking the streets you can still smell the poetry of his past through the purfumes and the architecture, sometimes fairy-tale , which ooze years of history and tradition.

Every corner and every neighborhood seem reality in its own right, devoted to their own exciting individuality, and the same is also for Portobello Road, Londonese former campaign and now the nucleus of one of the most popular and fun antiques markets in the world: the eponymous Portobello Road Market, fundamental goal for lovers of

“l ‘age du vin”.

Tube stop: Notting Hill. A bit of sun is enough to illuminate the multicolored buildings that line the entire street, long, confusing, lively… a succession of shops, galleries and stalls of all kinds where you can space actively between collectors’ items, antiques and vintage clothes alternated with food and ethnic dishes .“A real mess”, but an extremely charming and exciting for those who, like me, loves the Vintage … and the food!

Here it becomes possible to find a needle in a haystack. Provided that needle has a certain age or that it pretends to be antique, but not only… modern art, wallpapers of all graphics, old books and discs, silverware, trumpets, horns, rudders, flags, magnifying glasses, vintage clothes and even a stall where you can buy army accessories and military uniforms, where all political orientations seem to mingle abandoning its true meaning.

Wide open and joyful eyes, like a child in front of the candy as soon as I found myself in front of the stalls of textiles and pillows (predictable): delicious evergreen ethnic prints or decidedly more modern graphics with a British and aristocratic connotation, as the illustrations of dogs and cats in uniform #iwantthemall !! (difficult at the time to transport). I bought instead a romantic High hat to stay on topic.On Portobello Road, at every intersection, it is easy to find street performers, or it may be better to call them artists … and that’s it. Mostly freestyler and musicians that perform for entertaining, giving fun and having fun. One of these I was particularly excited holding me for a good quarter of hour listening to his beats and strange contagious sounds coming out of his mouth. X Factor is nothing compared I thought… but, fortunately, many of them love to perform on the street, to the delight of my eyes and my ears.

P.S. After the “fatigue” and under an inevitable afternoon downpour I slingshots myself into Bubbleology; it may remember the lab of a mad scientist but here you will find the Bubble Tea: tea , or presumed to be , of thaiwanese origin shaken with fruit and milk or enriched by transparent edible spheres that seem like plastic (chewy natural tapioca balls) that fit in the thin straw to give it the flavor. #iwantitnow